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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Eleven-year-old survivor of Texas school shooting reveals how she covered herself in blood and played dead

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth/screengrab

An 11-year-old survivor from the mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas told her family she smeared blood on her body and pretended to be dead to avoid getting shot by the teenage gunman.

Miah Cerrillo was one of the dozens of fourth graders who were barricaded into a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday, where a teenage gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers after opening fire on the unprotected group.

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